Felix Bronner was an urbane scholar and a pioneer in the study of ways calcium affects the body. He was intense, focused, and passionately interested in science as well as in the lives of his friends and colleagues. In his second career, he was a...

FARMINGTON — One of the country's few fertility clinics to use an advanced air purification system has opened in town.
The Center for Advanced Reproductive Services, formerly located at UConn Health, recently opened on 2 Batterson Park Road.
Chief...

Tina Angeli remembers her small Hyundai spinning across Route 202 in Granby and then a crash.
There was broken glass and the smell of talcum powder. And then she stopped breathing.
Suddenly, she found herself out of her body and above her car, in a...

A black patient hospitalized for chest pain in Connecticut is 20 percent more likely than a white patient to be readmitted within 30 days after discharge. Similarly, a Hispanic patient hospitalized for heart failure is 30 percent more likely to land...

AVON — Sharon Gauthier was always the squeaky wheel where she worked.Gauthier remembers working from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. in a neonatal ICU, and being told she was to report for mandatory overtime from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m."I'm not doing that, that's not...

Waterbury Hospital will cut its expenses as early as January, which could mean layoffs and curtailed services, even as unions, administrators and local activists debate how the hospital should move forward after the collapse of its proposed merger.
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Working models of the new electronic ticket-vending machines and online trip planner are ready, drivers are in training, and delivery of the 60-foot lime green buses begins this week.
CTfastrak is getting ready to go.
"We're on schedule. There's...

CANTON — Fire department officials are recommending that the town's ambulance service be upgraded to include paramedics, a proposal that could cost nearly $300,000 or more.
Leaders of the Canton Volunteer Fire & EMS Department outlined that...

FARMINGTON — Voters approved a $57.24 million upgrade to the sewage plant by a wide margin, according to unofficial results Tuesday.Unofficial results from voting machines showed that 6,055 people voted for the plan, and 3,005 voted against it,...

FARMINGTON — A $57.24 million upgrade to the town's regional sewage treatment plant that has been in the works for years goes to voters on Tuesday for approval.The project would be a major overhaul for the plant, which was originally built in the 1960s...

Democrats are hoping to hold on to the 21st House District seat, where they've had years of success in the heavily Republican district. Meanwhile, Republicans are hoping to win the seat back. FARMINGTON — Democrats are hoping to hold on to the 21st...

STORRS — He had made an anonymous $3 million gift a few years ago. And even as he pledged to match $5 million more in donations toward the construction of a new soccer complex, the largest single donor in UConn athletics history had to be encouraged to...

— Top geneticists from Harvard and the National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. joined Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and others Tuesday in opening the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.
The new nonprofit research center and the state of Connecticut...

On the elevator walls at the new Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine are staggered, little rectangles of white light in four vertical columns resembling a Scantron answer sheet used in schools.
Actually, it's a representation of DNA...

FARMINGTON — The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine opens next week, and many hope that it will elevate Greater Hartford as a hub for research in health care and biological sciences by attracting some of the best minds in those fields.
The nonprofit...

Six Hartford-area Rotary clubs are collaborating on a fundraising effort to buy webcams that will let parents of babies born prematurely see their children in the hospital when they cannot be there.
Club leaders said they are looking to raise more than...

WEST HARTFORD — An expectant mother on her way to the University of Connecticut Health Center to give birth to her child got as far as the shoulder of westbound I-84 between exits 43 and 44, where the baby decided it was time to enter the world.
State...

For the past 50 years, men have consistently had an easier time quitting smoking than women.More men go cold turkey. More men stop on nicotine blockers such as gum and patches. More men succeed on medications.Sherry McKee, an associate professor of...

WEST HARTFORD — Police and firefighters carried an injured mountain biker out of the woods Monday morning after he crashed his bike and severely injured his knee.Police were called to the MDC's Reservoir No. 1 at 8:42 a.m. Firefighters and police were...